RCMS: Research Careers for Minority Scholars-Graduate Dual Degree Program.

路易斯安那州泽维尔大学和新奥尔良大学提议建立少数民族学者研究职业计划，目的是招募有前途的高中毕业生和目前在册的学生，这些学生将致力于攻读科学或工程方面的研究生课程。拟议的计划将确定被选中的学生，并为他们提供本科生和研究生教学和研究顾问，帮助他们获得暑期研究实习机会，并提供足够数量的经济援助，以促进学生的成功。拟议项目的独特之处是在泽维尔大学(本科学位)和新奥尔良大学(研究生学位)之间建立了化学、计算机科学、数学、物理和工程方面的研究生双学位(理学学士和理学硕士)安排。那些追求工程职业的学生将获得新奥尔良大学的理学学士和理学硕士学位。在结构上，这一计划的独特之处不仅在于它能够为学生提供获得本科生和研究生学位的机会，而且还在于其时间框架比传统方法缩短了一年。从数字上看，我们预计这个拟议的项目最终将在全国范围内将科学领域的少数博士生增加约20%。美国国家科学基金会为该项目申请的金额为2,363，08美元，即每个学生获得化学、计算机科学、数学物理或工程学学士和硕士学位的年薪仅为10,503美元。大学费用分摊被设定为额外的776,168美元。

Xavier University of Louisiana and the University of New Orleans propose to establish a Research Careers for Minority Scholars program for the purpose of recruiting promising high school graduates and currently enrolled students who will commit to pursuing graduate study in science or engineering. The proposed program will identify selected students and provide them with undergraduate and graduate teaching and research advisors, help in obtaining summer research internships, and financial aid in sufficient quantity so as to facilitate student success. The unique feature of the proposed project is the development of a Graduate Dual Degree (Bachelor of Science and Master of Science) arrangement between Xavier University (for undergraduate degrees) and the University of New Orleans (for graduate degrees) in chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, and engineering. Those students pursuing engineering careers will receive both the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree from the University of New Orleans. Structurally, this program is unique not only in its ability to provide students an opportunity to obtain an undergraduate and a graduate degree, but also, in a time frame which is reduced by one year from the traditional approach. Numerically, we expect this proposed project ultimately to increase the minority pool of doctoral candidates in the sciences by approximately 20% on a nation-wide basis. The amount requested from the National Science Foundation for this project is $2,363,08 or only $10,503 per year per student to obtain a Bachelors and Masters Degree in either Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics Physics, or Engineering. University cost sharing is set at an additional $776,168.